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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Why are C news message-IDs so non-minimalist?
Summary: Not all are.
Message-ID: <5:CS3_@splut.conmicro.com>
Date: 2 Dec 89 21:27:22 GMT
References: <1989Nov30.162609.9435@phri.nyu.edu> <EZRVsR_00WBFQBElwa@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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In <1989Nov30.162609.9435@phri.nyu.edu>, roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
writes:
> <year.month.day.hour.minute.phase-of-moon@host> style, which
> is only exceeded in verbosity by Andrew Message-IDs.  

Not all C news message IDs are 47K long...look at mine. It was generated
by a program written by Jon Zeeff (zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us), and
the program is easy to splice into the C news system.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL   | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jay@splut.conmicro.com       (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
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